Dear
Outlook Readers
Readers
with a wish to investigate this issue from a more academic anthropological
viewpoint may find this paper from Dr Cristina
Grasseni of
interest.
Re-inventing food: Alpine cheese in the age of global
heritage.
From the concluding comments:
“Alpine cheese lies at the intersection of many issues, five
of which I have raised through previous ethnographic examples: the
unsustainability of intensive models of farming, the environmental embedding of
systems of cultural management of local resources; the historicity and
plasticity of such systems; the cultural appropriation of food as a symbol of
identity and belonging in processes of boundary-making; and its commodification
through new discourses and circuits of image-construction. From being a local
artifact, rooted in the practices and environments that produce it both
physically and socially, alpine cheese gets progressively dislocated in the
global networks of marketing and logistics as well as in techno-scientific and
legal controversies.”
Kind
regards
Tim
Tim
Harrap
Head
of Collaboration
Lye
Cross Farm
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Dear Vincenzo,
I am
interested to know.
Would that be all
consumers, some consumers, the majority of consumers? And why?
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David
Garmonsway
New
Zealand
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Finally, someone (
other than Italians, French and Swiss ) start taking position about the
necessity of food labeling of country origins.
The
European Union policy of Geographical indications ( PDO-protected designation of
origin, PGI-Protected geographical indication and, TSG-Traditional specialty
guaranteed ) implemented during the years 90, for sure it’s on this direction.
Consumers rightly want to know the food origin !
Vincenzo
Bozzetti
Technical
director of the Italian dairy magazine IL LATTE
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Cheese: it's not the milk, it's the packaging .... country of origin
Comments anyone? Could this also apply
in your country?
Michael
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Where is your cheese from?
Tesco has been accused of misleading customers over
cheese in the latest country of origin scandal. 
Sainsbury's is
looking out for its dairy suppliers Photo: GETTY 
By Louise
Gray
7:00AM BST 04 Aug 2012
The supermarket admitted that most of its Everyday Value Cheddar is cheese
sourced in Ireland.
But the packet only shows a UK stamp because it was packaged in Great
Britain.
In contrast other brands like Pilgrim’s Choice, that is also largely cheese
from Ireland or other countries, has the country of origin made clear in the
small print.
Campaigners say Tesco are breaking that promise and letting down dairy
farmers in the UK who risk being driven out of the market by imported cheese.
Latest statistics show the UK is imported 435,000 tonnes of cheese in 2010,
almost double the amount brought into the country in 2000.
Farmers blame cheap imports from abroad, which is also driving UK dairy
farmers out of business.
The number of dairy farmers in the UK has gone down from 34,570 in 1996 to
14,500 today, largely because of falling milk prices.
Nick Everington of the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers said
consumers want to help by buying British milk - but they can’t do that if cheese
is incorrectly labelled.
“It is misleading from the point of view that the only label says UK so
people passionate about buying from our farmers might pick it up thinking it is
British but its not.”
The Countryside Alliance also said it was unfair on consumers.
“At a time of increasing consumer awareness on the plight of British Dairy
farmers it is wrong of Tesco to sell cheese produced in Ireland as UK produce.”
Caroline Spelman, the Environment Secretary, said boosting cheese production
in the UK is one of the key ways to save British farming.
“Milk represents just half the dairy products we consume in the UK. Of the
rest — things like cheese, butter and yoghurt — the UK imports half because our
processors aren’t making them. After Ireland, the UK has the best climate for
growing grass in Europe, so we should be producing these added-value products
ourselves," she said.
A Tesco spokesperson insisted most of the Tesco own-brand cheese is British.
"While the majority of our Everyday Value cheese is made using Irish milk,
all of our Tesco own brand cheese is produced using 100 per cent British milk."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/farming/9447521/Where-is-your-cheese-from.html
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